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Democracy in crisis
The liberal democratic order has been losing its appeal for years as politics has come to depend more on loyalty to a leader than adherence to ideology. As opposing sides coalesce around increasing the power of the state, they focus on attacking personalities rather than policies. This has led to polarization, a loss of democratic ideals and the rise of populism.
Hillary’s first 100 days
The first 100 days has been a metric of presidential effectiveness in the United States since Franklin D. Roosevelt began the first of four terms in 1933. FDR’s successors have had a hard time living up to his standard. Now Hillary Clinton’s first 100 days are coming into view. They ...
Trump or Clinton? For Africa, there’s not much difference
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s campaigns are both missing an Africa strategy. But with Chinese activity in Africa ramping up, the next leader of the free world may have to come up with one quickly. Expect a President Trump to forcefully challenge Chinese strategy in the continent, while a President ...
Beyond hegemony: the next U.S. president and Latin America
Whatever Donald Trump might think, the U.S. can no longer throw its weight around in Latin America. One by-product of the region’s democratic transformation and economic boom of the early 2000s is a new sense of self-assertiveness. Barack Obama and George W. Bush recognized this fact, and the next U.S. ...
The West’s leadership crisis as a Russian trauma
Russians are not gleeful about the leadership vacuum in the West. There is a sense that the failure of Pax Americana has left them bereft and vulnerable. Faced with a decaying imperial center, peripheral states such as Russia or Turkey have had to assemble their own, “surrogate” order from the ...
